5.7 Review
Rocks, Earth’s Layers, and Plate Tectonics
Name_________________________
Date_____________________
Directions: Read each question and fill in the blanks with the correct answer(s).
Use your notes from your interactive notebook for help! 
1. What are the 3 types of rocks?
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2. How is each type of rock formed?
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3. What are two types of mineral luster?
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4. The Earth’s crust is made of what large pieces of land? ____________________
5. The movement of the Tectonic Plates cause what 4 things to happen?
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6. Draw and label the layers of the Earth
7. List 2 Facts about the mantle:
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8. List 2 Facts about the Earth’s crust
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9. List 2 Facts about the outer core
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10. List 2 Facts about the inner core
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11. What is erosion?
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12. What is weathering?
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13. What is a fault?
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14. How are Earthquakes caused?
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15. Scientist can learn about the past by studying what things found in rocks?
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Foliation
Hardness
Grain
Size
Color
Composition
Other
Rock
Type
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hard
coarse
light
feldspar &
quartz with
minor mica,
amphibole or
pyroxene
wide
range of
color and
grain size
Granite
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hard
coarse
white to
brown
clean quartz
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Sandston
e
foliated
soft
fine
clay minerals
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Shale
-
soft
fine
black
carbon
burns with
tarry
smoke
Coal
-
soft
fine
-
calcite
fizzes with
acid
Limeston
e
foliated
soft
fine
dark
-
“tink”
when
struck
Slate
foliated
hard
coarse
mixed
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banded
Gneiss
A mystery rock is very hard, foliated, and banded in color. What type of rock
is this? _______________________
While hiking, you find a rock that is soft, fine grained, dark, and foliated.
What type of rock did you find?____________________
What type of rock would you most likely find at point X?_____________
What type of rock would you most likely find at point Z?_____________
What type of rock would you most likely find at point Y?_____________
The Rock Cycle
Z
X
Y
Magma
MAGMA